Contemporary Issues in Media

Course Main Objective

The course aims to introduce students to the influence of mass media in spreading awareness about the contemporary issues and highlight features of the contemporary issues in media and connect them with reality of the Arab world.

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1Define the concept of the contemporary issues in media and their characteristics and role of media in highlighting them.
• 2. Skills 
•    2.1 Criticize the content of mass media in raising the contemporary issues.
•    2.2 Editi a media content on contemporary issues.
• 3. Values 
•    3.1 Practice analysis if contemporary issues according to professional ethics or code of ethics.

Course Content

• The concept of contemporary issues in media
• Characteristics of the contemporary media issues.
• Authority and press in the Arab world.
• Media and issues of terrorism.
• Media and violence and issues of crime and deviation in society.
• Media and human rights.
• Media and the sustainable development
• Media and political Islam.
• Multi-national companies.
• Media and poverty issues.

Textbook (s) 

- Muhammad, Qirat. Contemporary Media Issues. Al-Falah Bookstore, 2006.
- Abdel Raheem, Ali. Arab Media and Issues of Terrorism. Almahrousa center, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
- Awatef, Abdel Rahman. Contemporary Media Issues in the Arab World. Dar alfikr al-Arabi, Cairo, 2000.
- www.arabmediastudies.net
- www.ta3lime.com
- Mai, Al-Abdulla., Muhammad, Khouli. The Arab Media After 11 September. Dar Alnahda Al-Arabiya, Beirut, 2001.
- Napoli, Philip M. Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences. Columbia University Press, New York, 2011

Course ID: Media 209